Unclassified road crash in Conwy LL30 on 23 December 1997 at 15:45 involving a Ford Orion
A taxi and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Conwy at 15:45 on Tuesday 23 December 1997. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Orion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1997
- Tuesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32171, longitude -3.82223, in the LL30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llandudno.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997600CO1127
- Council area
- Conwy
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 1997.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Conwy, 24 March 1997
At the same spotRef 1997600CO1023
Serious
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At the same spotRef 2004600CO1139
Slight
Aprilia RS50 crash on the A470 in Conwy, 27 August 2010
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A470 in Conwy, 9 February 2006
10 m awayRef 2006600CO1010
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12 m awayRef 202360A030496
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Conwy, 1 June 2001
14 m awayRef 2001600CO1063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1997600CO1127 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Conwy road accident statistics for 1997.